Editing Links (web browser)

{{Short description|Web browser}}
{{Distinguish|Lynx (web browser)}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Links
| logo = Links web browser logo.png
| screenshot = {{Switcher | [[File:Webbrowser Links.jpg|270px]] |Graphical | [[File:Links-wikipedia-it.png|270px]] |Text}}
| caption = Screenshot of the Links Browser.
| author = 
| developer = Mikuláš Patočka
| released = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q608910|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q608910|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q608910|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q608910|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = {{Plain list|
* [[Windows]]
* [[macOS]]
* [[OS/2]]
* [[OpenVMS]]
* [[DOS]]
}}
| language = 
| genre = [[Web browser]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website = {{URL|links.twibright.com}}
}}

'''Links''' is a [[free software]] [[text-based web browser|text]] and [[graphical user interface|graphical]] [[web browser]] with a pull-down menu system.<ref>[http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/ Links home page]</ref> It renders complex pages, has partial [[HTML]] 4.0 support (including tables, [[Framing (World Wide Web)|frames]],<ref name="scoug">{{citation|first=Dallas|last=Legan|title=Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2|url=http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug009.textbrowsers.html|publisher=The Southern California OS/2 User Group|access-date=August 16, 2010|date=September 2001}}</ref> and support for [[UTF-8]]), supports color and monochrome terminals, and allows horizontal scrolling.

It is intended for users who want to retain many typical elements of graphical user interfaces (pop-up windows, menus, etc.) in a text-only environment.

The original version of Links was developed by Mikuláš Patočka in the [[Czech Republic]]. His group, ''"Twibright Labs",'' later developed version 2 of the Links browser, which displays graphics, and renders fonts in different sizes (with [[spatial anti-aliasing]]), but no longer supports [[JavaScript]] (it used to, up to version 2.1pre28). The resulting browser is very fast, but does not display many pages as intended. The graphical mode works even on [[Unix]] systems without the [[X Window System]] or any other window environment, using either [[SVGALib|SVGAlib]] or the [[framebuffer]] of the system's [[graphics card]].

==Forks==
===ELinks===
{{Main|ELinks}}
''Experimental/Enhanced Links'' (ELinks) is a [[Fork (software)|fork]] of Links led by Petr Baudis. It is based on Links 0.9.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elinks.cz/history.html|title=ELinks history page|access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref> It has a more open development and incorporates patches from other Links versions (such as additional extension scripting in [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]]) and from Internet users.<ref name="linuxjournal">{{cite web|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148?page=0,1|title=2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup|last=Bolso|first=Erik Inge|date=8 March 2005|publisher=[[Linux Journal]]|access-date=5 August 2010}}</ref>

===Hacked Links===
''Hacked Links'' is another version of the Links browser which has merged some of Elinks' features into Links 2.

Andrey Mirtchovski has ported it to [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]]. It is considered a good browser on that operating system, though some users have complained about its inability to cut and paste with the Plan 9 snarf buffer.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}

{{As of|2016|04}}, the last release of Hacked Links is that of July 9, 2003, with some further changes unreleased.<ref>{{citation|url=http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~karpov/links-hacked/downloads/ChangeLog|title=ChangeLog|work=Hacked Links Project|date=October 28, 2003|access-date=2016-04-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424091401/http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~karpov/links-hacked/downloads/ChangeLog|archive-date=2016-04-24}}</ref>

===Other===
Links was also ported to run on the Sony [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] platform as PSPRadio by Rafael Cabezas with the last version (2.1pre23_PSP_r1261) released on February 6, 2007.<ref name="PSP Port">{{citation|url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspradio/files/links2/|title=Home / links2|work=PSPRadio|publisher=[[SourceForge]]|access-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

The [[BeOS]] port was updated by François Revol who also added GUI support.<ref name="BeOS port">{{citation|url=http://revolf.free.fr/beos/patches/links-2.1pre33.beos.002.diff.txt|title=BeOS port patch|first=Francois|last=Revol|date=May 3, 2008|access-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref> It also runs on [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]].

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Links web browsers}}
* {{Official website}}
* [http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html User documentation] for Links
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160221211421/http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~karpov/links-hacked/ Links-Hacked project]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120330204952/http://krum.ethz.ch/macosx/links2.powerpc Links for OS X] on [[PowerPC]] and [[Intel]]
* {{sourceforge|pspradio|pspradio : Links for PSP 1.18.1377 (2007-04-02)}} [http://pspradio.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=24 (forum)] 
* [http://linkx.sourceforge.net Linkx fork]
* [https://github.com/spartrekus/links2 Original Links Source Code]

{{Lightweight web browsers}}
{{Web browsers|desktop}}

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[[Category:Text-based web browsers]]
[[Category:Web browsers for Plan 9]]